HAMILTON SWIFT, JR.
BYNOPSIS— Newcomer in
town, a young newspaper man, wh »
tells the story, is amazed by the
unaccountable actions of a man
who, from the window of mx fine
house, apparently has converse
with invisible pers
larly mentioning
doria.'’ Next
ers his strange
Hon. David Beas
ftician, and
With Miss J
unseen itr
inary ju
Beasley and a "Bill
Miss Apperthwalte
concerned The reporter lea
Beasley and Miss i
at one time been engaj . BIH
the young
engag
“lack of
a small
appes
hay ause of
imagination."
Beasley's
I11—Continued.
FS
“Poor David! Outside
books, 1 don’t bel
anything *but ‘Robinson Crusoe’
the Bible and Mark Twain. Oh,
should have heard her talk about it!
‘* couldn't bear it another day.’
sald, ‘1 couldn't stand it! In all
time I've known him I don't
he's ever asked me a single question-
except when he asked me If I'd marry
him. He never says anything-
speaks at all!" she said, 'You
of his law-
jeve
and
the
never
don’t
told her. ‘Blessing!’ she said.
nothing In the man! He
depths! He hasn't
tion than the
and sits in!
what 1 say to him by nodd
ing “uwm-hum.” with
foolish, contented
have gone mad if
longer!” 1 asked
married life consi
ronversations
wife; and she answered
married life ought to
etry in It
‘some soul! And
sits,” she said,
sits and sits!
longer,
has
chair he sits and
ing and say
that same
smile of his
it had lasted
her if she
sted very
between
I'd
any
thought
largely
husband and
that
have some
romance,’
he just comes and
‘and sits and and
And I can’t bear it any
and I've told him so."
“Poor Mr. Beasley,” 1 said
“1 think, Ann Apperthwaite!
retorted my cousin.
if there's any nicer
sit and sit and sit and sit
ly a man as that—na
stands things,
and smiles
talking I”
“As It happens,” 1 remarked
heard Mr. Beasley talk.”
“Why, of course talks”
turned, “when there's any real
it. And he talks to children:
kind of a man.”
“I meant a particular
began; meaning to
give any
and Simpledoria,
the
another eal ,
greet him, and presently I took my
leave without having been able to get
back apon the Subject of Beasley
Thus, once m affled, 1 returned
Mrs, Apperthwaite's-
the hour ea
the very heart of tha
mystery which over!
next door and so perp!
éven
po
‘Some
Sits
‘Poor
“I'd like to know
thing than just to
with as love
who under-
and
everlastingly
man
and thinks
instead of
“I've
he she re
use In
he's that
instance,” I
see If she
Bill Hammersley
but at that mo:
under the hand of
My cousin
ine clew to
ent
gate clicked
re
to and withir
me into possession
t dark and subtle
the hous
soul
Finding that 1 had still Some
hefore me, 1 got a book
and reg aired to
den. But 1
opened the
was arrested hy
side of the high
nlous
derivation:
leisure
from my room
bench in the
read: 1 had but
en attention
sonnds from the
fence—low and
of African’
the gnr
did
book wi
not
my
croonings
distinctly
a-mawnin’,
up de hill so slow!
in’ git a rastle in doo time
mly do's cloge-izg!*
hh met mah sistub in
B'fo de hevy
It was the voice of an aged negro:
and the simultaneous slight creaking
of a small hub and axle seemed to In-
dicate that he was pushing or pulling
¢ child's wagon or perambulator up
and down the walk from the kitchen
door to the stable. Whiles, he prof-
fered soothing music: over and over
he repeated the chant, though with va
riations; encountering In turn his
brother, his daughter, each of his par.
ents, his uncle, his cousin, and his
second-cousin, one after the other
ascending the same slope with the
same perilous leisure,
“Lay still, honey.” He interrupted
his Injonetions to the second.cousin,
“Des keep on a-nappin’ an’ a-breavin'
de Tesh alr. Dass wha's go' mek you
good an’ well agin”
Then there spoke the strangest
wolce that ever fell upon my ear: It
was not like a child's, neither was it
fike a very old nerson's voice; it might
{
f
ay x
have been a grasshopper's, It was so
thin and little, and made of such tiny
wavers and quavers and creakings,
“I—want—" sald this elfln volce, “1
-want--Bill-—Hammersley !"”
The shabby car which had passed my
cousin's house was drawing up to the
curb near Beasley's gate. Evidently
the old negro saw |(t
“Hi dar!” exclaimed,
dat! Hain' Bill a
edzacly on de dot
an’ instink when
Dar
t
“Look at
comin’ yonnah des
an' to de vey spot
you ‘quiah fo' 'im, |
Mist" Dave, right |
you kin bet yo' las |
he got dat Bill Ham
‘tin! along, honey
go' you 'roun In
fo' ‘em,’
wagon cresked away,
ns it went,
Mr. Do Jumped out of the car |
with a wave of his hand to the driver, |
teasley himself, who drove through his
carriage-gates and down the
the other side of the house
was lost to my ‘view
Dowden, entering our own gate, nod
a friendly fashion te me, and |
I advanced to meet hii,
“Some day I want to take you over
next door,” he sald cordially, as 1 |
“You ought to know Beas |
ley, especially as | hear you're doing
Dave Beas
ley's going to be the next governor of |
this state, you koow.' He laughed, |
offered me a cigar, snd we sat down |
together on the front steps.
“From all I rejoined, “you
who'll get it." (It was
said In that Dowden would |
“come pretty near having the nomina-
tion in his pocket”)
“1 expect you thought
subject pretty briskly
gikneed at
he
Cole
1
hunnud dollahs
Come
to pull
to meet
wif
youd
small the
The
vilen
open
drive on
I hear”
town
I shifted the |
the other day?”
me quizzically from un-
his. black felt hat, “1
tell you about that, but the
You see
meant to
unity didn't occur
“I understand,” “T've
heard the
be embarrass
I interrupted,
You thought it might
to Miss Apper
* story
“I expect 1 was pretty clumsy about
Dov cheerfully “Well
he flicked his cigar with a |
ered ejaculation that hinif
a laugh ; “it's a mighty
Here they keep on liv.
ing next door to each other, year after |
each going on alone when |
just as well-" He left
unfinished, save for a
of compassion, “They bow
happen to meet, but they haven't
vlen,
Was
half
strange case
they
the |
sentence vocal |
when |
they
! whe
him a
his head,
sent way, long He shook
then his countenance cleared |
ago.”
“I Think, ‘Poor Ann Apperthwaite!’”
Retorted My Cousin.
and he chuckled. “Well, sir, Dave's
got something at home to keep him
busy enough. these days, 1 expect!”
*Do you mind telling me?” 1 In
quired. “Is his name ‘Simpledoria’'?”
Mr. Dowden threw back his head
and faughed loudly, “Lord, no! Whai
on earth made you think that?”
I told him, It was my second suc
cess with this narrative; however
there was a difference: my former nu:
ditor listened with flushed and breath
less excitement, whereas the present
one laughed consumedly throughout,
Especially he laughed with a great
laughter at the picture of Beasley's
coming down at four in the “morniu:
to open the door for nothing on sea or
land or in the waters under the earth,
I gave account, also, of the miraculous
Jumping contest (though I did not
mention Miss Apperthwalie’'s having
been with me), and of the elfin voice
I had just now overheard demanding
“Bill Hammersley.”
“30 1 expect you must have decid.
ed.” he chuckled, when 1 concluded,
“that David Beasley has gone just
pinin insane.”
“Not a bit of it. Nobody could look
at him and not know better than that”
“You're right there!” sald Dowden,
heartily. “And now I'll tell you all
there 8 to it. You see, Dave grew
up with a cousin of his named Ham-
ilton Swift; they were boys together;
went to the same school, and then to
college. I don't believe there was ever
a high word spoken between them.
Nobody In this life ever got a quarrel
out of Dave Beasley, and Hamilton
Swift was a mighty good sort of a fel-
low, He went East to live, after
they got out of college, vet they al-
ways managed to get together once a
year, generally about Christmas time,
You couldn't pass them on the street
without hearing thelr lnughter ringing
out louder than the sleigh-bells, may-
be over some old joke between them,
or some fool thing they did,
when they were hoys, But
Hamilton Swift's took
over to the other side water
live:
too,
perhaps,
business him
of the to
English girl,
)
I!
“Simpledoria Ils Supposed to Be Ham
ilton Swift, Jr's, §t. Bernard Dog.”
That
sir,
were tak.
an orphan without any kin was
about seven years ago. Well
summer he and his wife
a trip down in Swit
they were
out of a
and word enme that Hamilton
il appointed Dave
child they had, a
Swift, Junior's,
across the
of a doctor, and Dave
York to meet hin He
home here
passed
this
zeriand, and
drowned tip
Lake
ing
hoth wl over
f.u¢ erie ——
Swift's
of the
Ham
ie
arge
rowboat in
immrdian
one little box
ilIton his name
wns sent ocean in oh
went on to New
brougit
the vers
the house
getting up at fou
let that
: host in
gh it
ghost Sir
“I begin
feel :
“Not at all we reloined
hap's freaks
to
Hittle «
tify anybody, especially wi
the ridiculous
Jur
moring ‘em
Hamilton Swift
child 1 ever
Lord knows He made
dren powerful mysterious!
little cuss has a
firmities that
back most of
other
curiousest £nwW
gone]
comp CRiIOon
have
his life
children,
and he's
never p
got fede
heat of !
ng I und
nerves
thing;
sick, eretand it
are
it's supposed
year to
all
he
Year.
and
hu:
ter from
bones and insides
Wrong.
gets a Jitt
He
braces,
too]
and
sometimes, all
one, 1 Seno,
hrought him h
ably
carrying
lumping:
The boy
somehow
fe het
wears a
and
pretiy
subject to attacks,
the name for "efi
iittle he has
He had
day Beasley
and that was probe
he's
don’t kn
loses wlhnt
Ow
voloe
whisper,
after
but a
the
ame,
the r
all to himself about that
match out in the back-yard,
must have been lying
in the little wagon they have for him,
while Dave cut up shines with ‘Bill
Hammersley! Of course, most children
make-believe friends and com.
especially if they haven't any
or sisters, hut this lonely
his people worked
out in his mind and materialized be.
ave got
well acquainted with ‘em on the train
on the way home, and they certainly
are giving him a lively time.” Ho, ha!
Getting him up at four in the morn.
Ing"
Mr. Dowden's mirth overcame him
for a moment; when he had mastered
it. he continned: “Simpledoria—now
where do you suppose he got that
name ?—well, anyway, Simpledoria is
supposed to be Hamilton Swift, Jun.
lor's, St. Bernard dog. Beasley had to
bathe him the other day, he told mel
And Bill Hammersley is supposed to
be a boy of Hamilton Swift, Junior's,
own age, but very big and strong: he
has rosy cheeks, and he can do more
in athletics than a whole college track.
team. That's the reason he tute
jumped Dave so far, you see.” /
on
panions,
brothers
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i
“I'm glad there's somebody In
that house at last with a little
imagination”
TO BE CONTINURD.)
Bands of Peltry Add to Attrac-
tiveness of the Wrap.
Winsome Decoration for the Winter
Coat May Be Had at Slight
Expenditure,
Fur Is the accepted trimming for the
longer coats, says a fashion writer in
the New York Tlnes, Jy using this
for a trimming you cun have the most
luxurious gort of a wrap with the slight-
est expenditure of money. If you
have a fur wrap of this distinction, this
width and this length, you would find
yourself involved with hundreds-—no
thousands—of dollars. But you
have a cloth wrap + ‘th the wide
of fur trimming "und the price
not be too startling for a winter
tume,
There Is one very economical wdy
of cutting up an old fur coat and us
Ing it for trimming on a newer one,
You may have
quarter length
were to
can
will
COS
u short
cont which would never
but which could
one or i
of a wi to ac
frock
tresses
ming wien coat made
Same very
ahie
cout
lines Its
smart or a
F
There Is the made stric
material is a
on
ight light
hn HT
Straight Lines and Black Fur Trim.
ming Distinguish This Coat of Blue
Mauve Broadcloth,
ited) the
ad
ere is
bluish to
this particular co in an
Tn the fro nt 1)
and the belt around
mauve
of
mirnble mann
6 flat panel
fides and back i= ma
position material In a
ouched wi
is black--n
lines
the
me com
purple
The fur
rich and the
wide collar repeats the design of the
straight cuffs as well as the band at
the end of the long panel in front
A band fur is added
a draped turban of the same m
de of =:
deep
th spots ofegreen
deep, seal,
of the ahout
aterial
Among the Women; Many Are
in Bright Coloring.
“What about cipes? wax an oft
repeated question at the beginning of
For the cape has any a
and no enemies among women
it seemed to be holding an
reign in the fashion world,
designers agreed that it was ti
displace it with some other wrap,
the fact that women
agked for them
them a place in the
True, over
me
but
bought the capes
insistently gave
fashion
: itis
fashioned in fur, in velvels, brocades
and fur, in matelasse, in
rics.
A great many
yokes shirred
velvet capes have
or smocked in deep
points. A lovely green one seen re
cently was shirred to represent a
chrysanthemum, another black velvet
cape was shirred yoke depth and tin
ished by a padded roll about the hem.
Short capes (meaning hip-dength and
kneedength capes) argofte. a part of
the smart coat-dress costume. The
cape of metal brocade is trimmed in
deep fur bands. as this fabric does
not take the soft folds of velvet.
The bright shades of velvet capes,
orange, purple and green, give a de
Hghtful dash of color to evern'4g af.
fairs, These capes are lined with
silver cloth veiled in chiffon or crepe
of contrasting hue. Matelnsre, too, Is
one of the much-chosen fabrics for
evening wraps, Capes appear in many
sariations from straight ones gath
ered very full to circular capes of
JACKET FOR MORNING WEAR
The short allows freedom
This model is every
the smart cut of the sieeves to
close fitting hip-line. Brown astra.
kan is used in this.
jacket
chic in line from
“he
makes
any
The
the cont with its hat an
an
of
too light
and
sreangement of wil
could proud.
the coat Is not by
ond airy It is a deep tone of mauve
that almost upon gray, and
the contrast of that soft and exquisite
against the thick biack fur is
something that makes the fest
port of a winter effect At
time the youthfulness and
the light color and
are kept Intact
A three-quarter coat
made of
muterials that
and so extraordinarily warm.
with a of blue ng
lined with a soft blue
the tone of the
The
ne of
f wom
ich
be justly color
any means
Yerges
shade
love
the same
of
material
charm
the soft
with a cape is
twp
and thick
Itw ¢ olor
rut
one of the homespun
are so soft
band
in gray ning
thiough it,
sittin that
ery
crepe
repeats
dress worn with it,
1 eh ih
game t
the effect of the costume is
excellent
Gay Linings for Fur Coats
Linings in
revelation of
the new fur coat
+
h
being done
" all-over
tine tracery
Among the
Faste m qos gh
chiffon
Wear.
street wear are the
Twills for Street
Poiret twill
dominant n 2 { lored wear
of the ks of em
broidery in gold designs, while scarlet
end Persian developed in
other to
some of the
used,
Some
from touches
are
model ig used
For
istently
trim
the frocks. velvet
frocks, ermine o%
the
is co ns
the
hing
ghing
black velvels in
frocks
pecially on
of
ire
brown
need d
CHE
fu screetly
at neck and sleeves
gathered into a
Tailored Dress Fabrics.
and broadcloth
tailored dress
color range of
In
CK,
Twill two
featured fabrics in the
used in limited
navy and black.
panvelaine, In bls
marten, kit fox and
are the favorite tones
interesting in Ha-
shows the flat
cord are
line
coats,
navy
Ha.
brown,
gerona
sounchard,
walian blue
A particularly
n blue panvelaine,
back and _ with a slight fullness
exactly at the waistline, stitched into
a yoke belt. Bands of black and gold
and a lighter blue embroidery are ap-
effec. song the top
and bead the wide cir
lar e
and
coat
collar of nutria
fodel
Straight Lines Now,
Farther manifestations of straight.
line sithouette favoritism are shown In
the prize award in the fashion contest
of the Fashion Art league convention
in Chicago, Straight lines won the
day in a dress of nervy milanette, with
slashed sides revealing a foundation
of latinum-gray canton crepe,
New Shape in Fans,
Among the novelties in dress acces.
sories are the square fans of painted
xilk, mounted on tortolseshell frames,
These are big, the squard measuring
perhaps eighteen ipches,
Bertha Collars.
Smart and new are deep herthh col
lars of embroidery organdie put to
gether with filet and Irish laces
(The Kitchen
Cabinet
Western
£5. 1923 Newspaper mien )
Between the thant are
Wike
And march
Bometime
Inoks
Of him who
guise
keep
age
And then 1 think "What preeious
books." Hilda Morris
printed words wn
so easily across lhe
suddenly 1
page
quite cateh the
wrote, tolling nn lowly
To his pen undulled by woe or
things are
SOUPS AND GARNISHES
for
attrac
tive dish of the
There are
varieties
he is indeed
to please
cannot find
ope to his liking.
Vermont Chicken
Soup ~—~Tuke six
chicken
will
many a
Soups
with
never grow passe,
too wotiy is the
neal,
such
that
hard
who
well-seasoned
little grated
shredded and one cup
ful of peas. If the are fresh
simmer unt they are Beat an
bread crumbs to
into balls
and sim
upiuis of
stock, add a onion, a
[Was
done
egy,
make a pn
Drop the balls
until well he
Quick Boultion.~ ~{'11t fine one pound
of fat
hot.
beef and a slice
Put into a sa cepan
of cold water, one
finely n and
uies two
for
need COOK
water sn
press throug! i fine sieve
with salt, pepper and
Cheese Balls.—Take
ful of flour, half a cu
tal lespoanful
Mix
smooth
celery
one-half cup
milk, a
each of butter and
in a doul conk
and
and
Set
nful of
cheese ie holler
until
well beaten
pdd one
ong
rool
“hick, exe
cook enough to
Form
hickory nuts,
cook five min
immediately
Meat Dish. —Put through
grinder two er three me
sized potatoes, season well, add
glso ground threug
the meat grinder In a little pork
fat the and onion
scalded then place In 2a well
baking pan with a
£t beef and garnish
crooked pork sausages
and
dixh
and onion
he for mo
Rice Soup.—{nok one-fourth of a
cupful three cupfuls of ball
ir gw ater w
set the egg aside to
into
drop into
and
Leftover
the
dium
balls the size of
boiling soup,
utes serve
meat
one small onion
EAURARS enok
anti! wel)
buttered
potate
layer of
witli
Bake
cooked
that al’ the
juice i= added
onion
Kew
s potato are
the
needed sture
of rice In
1 one teaspoonful
ice of onion and a stalk of celery
ig cooked add two red
press thronzh a sieve
am and the same
hicken or veal oneoizrhth of
a teaspoonful of pepper and three ta
blespoon ful ach of butter and flour
ided to hind
cooked the
ry
%
for the
lesired, place In
the
fruit eake
NE or use
IS m
sled
nutes
let the
or after the steaming dn
half hour in a
moderate “1 cake
escape
or ff
Oi Sor
an
oven. The
better flavor
¢ steamed first,
has a much
and textur
then beked.
the
the year bacon with green
this season of
peppers makes a most ap-
eakfast dish
them in
Soak
rings, re
for
drain,
and cut
he seods twenty
salted ice water,
in the bacon fal.
drained bacon het in
the peppers when tender in
center of the platter the ba
arranged around them.
Keep
well the on
and serve
the with
oon
Gluten
than
gems are liked by others
who find It necessary to
diet. To two of gluten flow
sallow a teaspoonful of salt, ten
gpoonfule of baking powder, two table
spoonfuls of sugar, ege and two
cupfuis of milk or half milk and half
water, Sift the dry ingredients, beat
he egg, add the milk and flour and
beat again until light and foamy. Have
the pans hissing when the mix
those
cupfuls
fwo
one
hot
When the appetite needs coaxing
cut the bread for toast in fingersized
pleces, toast and butter and pile log
cabin fashion when serving.
A sprinkling of salt on the break
fast grapefruit is an improvement In
serving instead of sugar. The salt
brings out the flavor of the fruit. This
is good news to those who are denied
sugar,
Almond Bread Make a sponge at
night with a quart <ach of water and
gluten flour, add a yeast cake dis
solved in a little water, let rise In a
warm place overnight. In the morn.
ing add two teaspoonfuls of sult, one
cupful of blanched nlmonds finely
chopped and enough gluten flour to
mold. Knead well, mold inte loaves
and bake when light. This makes
two loaves,
Nereie Moy wert
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